Quickly Update Freebsd 15.x and Over and All Jails

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:00:31 -0700

Assuming you have:

pkgbase and 15.x FreeBSD server with a bunch of jails
bastille as the jail manager
and that the host and all jails are on pkgbase

here’s a single command to upgrade them all in one shot. What does the command do:

Fix Upgrade Issues After Using Pkgbase on FreeBSD 15.x

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:21:41 -0800

I recently upgraded my nas from 14.x to 15-RELEASE and then converted to pkgbase because I just loved the idea of being able to do pkg update and pkg upgrade for all upgrades moving forward. After the upgrade, the version I was on was 15.RELEASE-p1. After about a month or so, when I noticed p2 was out, I ran pkg update and pkg upgrade, it still kept me at p1. Investigating, I figured when I ran the lua based script to upgrade to pkgbase, it didn’t (or I forgot) to say yes for FreeBSD base repository. If you’re like me, here’s the instructions to fix it quickly.

Pkgbase on SANJAY REGMI

Quickly Update Freebsd 15.x and Over and All Jails

Fix Upgrade Issues After Using Pkgbase on FreeBSD 15.x